In meteor 1.3 beta, why npm stored in npm devDependencies not in dependencies?

[Khaled Karam]

Hello,
I've notices in the package.json sample you provided in the README, npm dependencies is stored in using npm ...--save-dev, is there a reason for that?. And if I had NODE_ENV to be production would it fail?

[Julian Ćwirko]

Here is a very good explanation: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18875674/whats-the-difference-between-dependencies-devdependencies-and-peerdependencies
... in this particular case this isn't so important, but all that postcss plugins are actually dev dependencies so I think this is the place for them.

First you need to run npm install anyway, so there is no difference if you run Meteor with NODE_ENV in production it will already have all dependencies installed.